Substantial samples of scats of opossums and coyotes from the Reservation have contained no remains of racers.
The residue inscats consisted entirely of hard and indigestible parts such as the chitin of insects' exoskeletons and the hair, feathers, scales, teeth and occasional bone fragments of the vertebrate prey.
Over the same period that the sample of scats was collected, a much smaller food sample of 73 prey items was collected by squeezing recently eaten food from the racers' stomachs, or by finding the snakes actually swallowing their prey.
Miscellaneous insects, such as beetles, bees and ants recorded from scats were not found in stomachs.
Among 21 vertebrate prey items in 14 scats of the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) there were remains of one blue racer.
However, in the remaining 14 instances the remains of racer found in scats clearly indicated cannibalism, since the scales found were small and numerous and often were associated with bone.
In 254 scats of the slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus) vertebrate remains were rare, but there were scales and bones of one hatchling blue racer.
In 25 scats of the prairie king snake (Lampropeltis calligaster), there were 29 vertebrate prey items of which one was a blue racer.
Diagram showing percentage frequency of occurrence of various categories of prey in a sample of 1008 food items identified from scats and stomachs of blue racers from the Reservation and Rockefeller Tract.
Judging from the contents of scats that were certainly from foxes, the effect of inadvertent inclusion of fox scats would be to elevate the percentage of scatscontaining berries (but not more than five percentage points).
Tracks or scats of the coyote were seen in all parts of the Park visited.
Probably none of thesescats was more than a month old.
One scat (3 per cent) contained an appreciable amount of plant debris, one contained Microtus along with other items, and one contained only Sylvilagus; 14 scats had material of more than one category.
Nevertheless, a few of thescats studied may have been those of foxes.
Each scat was broken up and the percentage of scats containing each of the following items was noted (figures are to the nearest per cent).
Most of the scats probably were deposited within a few days of the time they were collected, because scats disintegrate and disappear rapidly in the field where they are exposed to rain, wind and dung-feeding insects.
A third smaller collection of scats was made in the vicinity of the laboratory buildings and adjacent rock walk frequented by a few skinks.
On the weathered planks of the bridge, the scats were conspicuous and could be easily gathered in quantity.
Of this total, five scats contained remains of Eumeces fasciatus, which was one of the more frequent items, although small mammals collectively made up the bulk of the scat contents.
The scats consist mainly of chitinous fragments of arthropod prey.
Many copperheads collected on the Reservation were kept in captivity for short periods, and from them a total of 44 scats were obtained, each scat containing the remains of one or more prey animals eaten in the wild.
The scats of these skinks are, roughly, 10 to 20 mm.
A total of 620 food items found in scats represented an average of 1.
Among 217 identified prey items from stomachs and scats of Sonoran skinks (Eumeces obsoletus) from northeastern Kansas were remains of three hatchling five-lined skinks.
Approximately equal numbers of scats were collected at the two main stations, the pond rock pile and the bridge, but some kinds of items were unequally represented in the two samples.
Frequency of Occurrence by Months of Various Types of Prey in a Collection of 371 Scats of Eumeces fasciatus.
A small number of additional scats were collected elsewhere on the Reservation, but ordinarily the scats were so inconspicuous in the woodland situations where skinks occurred under typical habitat conditions, that few were found.
Seasonally, the sample of scats overlapped but little the sample of stomach contents, and was concentrated in the latter half of the growing season.
Bones from the scats were identified to species, and hair was identified to genus or species by comparing color patterns or cuticular patterns with samples from known mammals.
The bobcat may be an important predator upon Peromyscus in this region, but few scats of this animal were found.
Scats were identified, labeled and dried; all bones and samples of hair were later removed from each scat.
Scats that were intermediate in size between the droppings of foxes and coyotes, and that could not be identified readily in the field, were not collected.
Scats were found by them in the linings of some nests.
The samples of cottontail and least weasel all were from the scats of one large male weasel.
Scats and contents of lower digestive tracts, although obtained in large quantity, were unsuitable for analysis because of the fragmentary nature of the foods they contained.
Analysis of scats collected from released wolves No.
Scats were collected along the tracks of the wolves in the snow whenever possible.
No beavers were known to have been killed by them, however, and no beaver remains were found in their scats (Table 4).
Scats and casts that are soil crumbs form only because organic matter is being consumed.
Remains of voles were identified in 28 per cent of the scats of the copperhead snake (Ancistrodon contortix) examined.
Remains of voles were present in 12 per cent of the scats of the coyote (Canis latrans) examined.
Scats from predatory mammals and reptiles and pellets from raptorial birds were examined.
The results of the study of the scats and pellets are summarized in Table 5.
Hackberry fruit (Celtis occidentalis) was second to grape in importance and large numbers of scats were found to be composed mainly or entirely of the skins and seeds of this fruit.
In the fall of 1948, corn made up a large part of the contents of scats noticed.
Pile of more than a dozenscats not individually separable, nearly all consisted mainly or entirely of hackberry fruits estimated at 2000; other contents chiefly crabapple and corn.
No comparable data for spring or summer were obtained because scats deteriorate rapidly in warm weather and were seldom found then.
The crayfish is evidently the most important animal food, at least during the cooler half of the year when scats are seen in greatest numbers.
Scats were seen in greatest abundance in the fall, partly because the opossum population was then at its annual high point.
Grape was the most abundant single item, and a large number of scats consisted exclusively of grape seeds and skins.
Accumulations of several dozen scats may collect in such situations.
In following years, corn was noticed less frequently in scats but still continued to be one of the important food items.
Feeding habits were investigated by field examination ofscats found mainly in fall and winter.
Few scats were seen in the field throughout the summer.
The sample of scats examined in the field, as noted below, are thought to be representative of the much larger number noticed but not examined in detail.
Information concerning their feeding habits was obtained mainly by examination of scats in the field.
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